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Using butter to create art
The next time you catch your children (or husband) playing with the butter, encourage them to create masterpieces like these! Here is some art that is bound to make you smile!! Enjoy.

I do wonder what happens to the sculptures afterwards, do they up on toast?

There are many reasons why I like reading blogs, but one particular reason is reading other blogs about food and recipes. I like to find recipes that others have tried and tested and know that work!! Saves me the hassle! So, thanks Sandy for your chocolate cake, it was fast to make, moist and ever so yummy. This would be perfect for a beginner to make and being so fast, one to make if unexpected visitors were on their way.
Like all recipes, I make changes (sorry Sandy) and I did it to this one too. Do check Sandy's recipe so the next bit makes more sense!! As I am not vegan I exchanged the water for milk and I added 1 egg (but to be honest it works quite well without an egg). If you do add 1 egg, reduce your milk by just a little so you don't end up with more liquid. I also didn't add any vinegar. As I didn't have any wholemeal flour, I just used plain flour - worked just as well. Shows you that these sorts of recipes are quite adaptable.

Clara is a homeschooling mum with two growing children (7 and 8). She is an excellent seamstress and very clever with her drawing and now putting these skills to wonderful use by creating and selling a range of items on her new Esty store.
I spent a week in Queensland with Clara and her family and I can tell you, she puts many many hours into selecting the right fabrics, deciding what to make and then creating these wonderful pieces. Whilst I was there she sold a number of items and received custom orders, such as making puppets, dolls clothes and even ballet slippers!!
I would highly recommend checking out her Esty store and see what she has for sale. I know she has plans for many other items and I can't wait to share them with you when they come available. I have my eye on a few "future" products!!
She is very happy to do custom orders and I know she is currently busy doing one right now. You …

Feather Art using discarded feathers from the swan
English artist Ian Davie has a unique canvas for his artwork: discarded swan quills (swans are protected in Britian by the Crown). Using feathers collected during the birds' annual moult from a swannery near to his home (Snowdonia National Park, Wales), Ian has spent the past four years perfecting his craft.
After cleaning the often dirty quills and individually straightening them out with tweezers, Mr Davie, 47, then begins the arduous process of painting onto the swans discarded feathers. Prior to turning 40, Ian Davie had never painted a picture, but once he started he realised he was too bad at it! Davie uses a special acrylic paint that protects and coats the feather, and a specialised 000-size brush to fill in the finer details.

When we hear the music, we know there was a composer. When we read coherent writing, we know there was an author.How much more does this principle apply to the detailed information contained in the DNA of every living creature?

Why do so many believe that there was no author, no composer in the creation of our world?
Because it requires complete faith in the word of God. Nothing we see, or smell or touch was created randomly. Nothing. So many random acts can not create the order we see today in the array of animals and plants we have.

In the beginning God createdthe heavens and the earth-Genesis1:1

Quote (in italic) is from The Battle for the Beginning:Creation, Evolution and the Bible by John MacArthur (p. 137)

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Washing day
Wash on Monday,
Iron of Tuesday,
Mend of Wednesday,
Churn on Thursday,
Clean on Friday,
Bake on Saturday,
Rest on Sunday.
Sometimes the ordinary and mundane have a quiet beauty we haven't really taken much notice of. Today's art is all about the washing on the line and some of these paintings are quite striking.

All quotes used today are by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Enjoy.

"I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."

"Home is the nicest word there is"

"The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies"
And what happens after the washing is dry . . . the ironing!

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Art Friday: Susan Wheeler
Illustrator
Todays art is all about cute little mice and bunnies. I think they are adorable and I hope you do to. My favourite is the top one - I just wish I could join them for a cup of tea and scones!

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Who remembers free school milk?
I can.
And yuck . . . warm, creamy milk in glass bottles that tasted horrible.
Why were the bottles always left in the sun to get warm, especially in summer? They could sit for quite sometime until recess, some probably went slighly off!
And if you forgot to shake the bottle you got a mouth full of clumpy cream!
The programme started at the beginning of the 20th century with all children in kindergarten, infant and primary schools receiving free milk to improve their nutrition and general health. Between 1951 and 1973 the Commonwealth Schools’ Free Milk Scheme provided one third of a pint of whole milk per day to primary school children throughout Australia. The scheme ceased om 1973 but reintroduced in 1994.
Providing the milk had cost $72,000 in 1951, whereas it had grown in cost to just over $10 million in 1969. By 1970 the government was starting to wonder if the programme was producing any benefit, except turning children off milk. This document …